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Piss off! The day that how one formats a response to an email is some measure of the quality of the individual writing it and the value of that response is the day I go back to a yellow pad and pencil. Yikes! Chuck... bg wrote: > On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 07:15, Dave Jewett wrote: > >> I apologize for the top post. Most of the world top posts; > > bg: > > Which simply demonstrates that the world is mostly made up > of the clueless and care-less. > > dave: > >> and I could not immediate find the section of my email client >> to reconfigure it for this specific email. > > "Reconfigure it"??? > > What email client are you using that would require reconfiguring > in order to arrange original and reply in the correct chronological > sequence? I have used five or six different email clients over the > past nearly thirty years, and I cannot recall a single one that > would require "reconfiguration". > > The way most emailers default in the reply edit mode is to position > your cursor at the top of the original. The reason this is done > is apparently, unaccountably, non-obvious to millions of the > NetNewbies of the past several years. The reason it positions that > way is to encourage the user to drill down through the original > post, snipping out those portions not directly relevant to their > intended reply, and not so incidentally reinforcing their knowledge > of what the original was saying; then having reached the bottom of the > original, and with any luck at all having reduced it, if it was > a long one, by say 80%, commence their reply. > > Top posting may be marginally acceptable for a single one-on-one > exchange in a business environment; > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > "Okay - Mario's on Fourth at 12:45!" > >> "Wanna have lunch tomorrow" > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > even though it reads illogically in that reverse chronology. Fine. > > But top-posting is an irritant on any form of e-list or discussion > group where there are multi-message threads. > > Yeah, I know, those religious wars again. But I will not > acquiesce to sloppy, hard-to-read practices just because millions > of clueless newbies don't know how to work their reply edit function > as it was intended, and worse, don't much care either way. > > Brewster - -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 3944 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkrOA6AACgkQvo/pZKjjE/PsIwCfaMlVKhZ6Qu7bodOpk3vp517F tMcAn3b8lOFQ4w7RkY1wTxCrhw0wTJdS =FRX1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
